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+---
+Language: Cpp
+AccessModifierOffset: -1
+AlignAfterOpenBracket: Align
+AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false
+AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false
+AlignEscapedNewlinesLeft: true
+AlignOperands: true
+AlignTrailingComments: false
+AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: true
+AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: None
+AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: false
+AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: AllDefinitions
+AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: true
+BinPackArguments: true
+BinPackParameters: true
+BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: None
+BreakBeforeBraces: GNU
+BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true
+BreakConstructorInitializersBeforeComma: false
+ColumnLimit: 100
+ConstructorInitializerAllOnOneLineOrOnePerLine: true
+Cpp11BracedListStyle: true
+DerivePointerAlignment: false
+IndentCaseLabels: false
+IndentWidth: 2
+NamespaceIndentation: None
+PointerAlignment: Right
+ReflowComments: false
+SortIncludes: false
+SpaceAfterCStyleCast: true
+SpaceAfterTemplateKeyword: true
+SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
+SpaceBeforeParens: Always
+SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
+SpacesInAngles:  false
+SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false
+SpacesInParentheses: false
+SpacesInSquareBrackets: false
+Standard: 'Cpp11'
+UseTab: Never
+...